News Archive - November 2013

Horowhenua Guy Fawkes Doubles

3 November 2013

Twelve teams took part in the Horowhenua Guy Fawkes Doubles. Dave Gatchell/Lew Gill and Kevin McFadgen/Sandy Macdonald won all five games, with the former taking out the event on points differential. (Final results)

PNZ National Doubles Championship

4 November 2013

Christian Fouquet and David Lippard retained their National Doubles title at the weekend in Dunedin. In the Trophy final they beat Pam Jenkins and Joanne Lippard.

The Trophy Consolation was won by Craig McKenzie and Dirk Winnie from Neville Frost and Graeme Morris. The Consolante was won by Stephane Montel and Graham Targett.

Kapiti Over 70's Tournament

10 November 2013

Another successful “Over 70’s” friendly tournament was held at Kapiti Pétanque Club on Wednesday 6th November. Tournament started with 52 entries followed by 2 cancellations so Brian Frampton and Kath Alison agreed to enter, to make an even number of players and thus avoid a bye.

As the part of the mêlée, five games were played. The weather was good, although light rain began to fall towards the end of the day. All who played enjoyed their day and said what a great atmosphere there was. Laughter and joking could be heard coming from most pistes which was so good to hear.

The leading results were:

Kath Alison (Kapiti)

Mike Towart (Otaki)

Rex Hayes, (Kapiti)

Brian Bradburn (Silverstream), Les Little (Manawatu)

In her acceptance speech, Kath said she must have had some good partners. “Thank you to all as I won 5 out of 5 games, a surprise to me as I am not playing much these days.”

“Thank you to all who entered and we look forward to our next “Over 70’s” and hope to see some new players.”

Wanganui East Triples

14 November 2013

Twenty-five teams have entered the Wanganui East Open Triples this weekend (16/17 November).

Wanganui East Triples

18 November 2013

Twenty-five teams took part in the seventh annual Wanganui East Open Triples (16/17 November).

The first day qualifying format was a five round random-draw with a time limit of 60 minutes plus two ends. At the end of the day, two teams were undefeated on five wins: Yvonne Futcher/Barbara Johnston/Annick Le Guen and Denise Bavidge/Sharon Cannon/Geoff Greer.

Sunday morning saw the top sixteen qualifiers divided into four pools of four. The bottom nine qualifiers from Saturday played in a five round random-draw for the Bowl.

In the afternoon the top two teams from each pool continued in the Trophy knockout, while the bottom two took part in the Plate knockout.

In an interesting twist, all four Plate and Trophy finalists came from the same pool from the morning round.

Khandallah 3 Boules Triples

20 November 2013

Nine teams took part in the Khandallah 3 Boules Triples. Teams who had the Bye were offered a choice of taking the win (13-7), or playing Michael Rocks, who had 6 boules, to see if they could improve on the 6 points differential. Their win was still guaranteed. Final results

Inter-region match

27 November 2013

Wellington finished in fourth place behind Southern White and the two Canterbury teams. Further details to come.